Migrate APM Config between versions

Hello Ajene,

are you able to install v12.1.5.3 on new hardware while importing configuration? That will also allow you to work with SCF or UCS files.

This will also allow you to perform a direct upgrade from 12.1.5.3 to 14.1.4.1 where F5 will do the work to validate your configurations.

From a full configuration import, then you can just cut out text config from /Common/ .conf partition files and put them into /new-partition/ .conf text files. Of course remember to change any object reference to match the new position.

I'm sure you do this already, but save backup copies before editing text files.

If you prefer to keep working on text config files .. that's just text config! In the worst scanario, new version will refer objects in a different way which you will need to match.

Also, all APM configuration is shared between F5 devices so I'd expect to have it all in bigip.conf and eventually bigip_users.conf files .. please double-check this, but I don't remember editing anything else last time I did this.